Triple

T7060094
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Stross E164193 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Family Trade
The Family Trade is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows a journalist who discovers she can travel between parallel worlds and becomes embroiled in the politics and intrigues of a powerful interdimensional trading clan.
E638243 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: The Family Trade | Statement: [Charles Stross, notableWork, The Family Trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Family Trade
Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, The Family Trade]
  • A. The Traders
    "The Traders" is a science fiction story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, focusing on the role of independent merchants in spreading the influence of the Foundation through trade and technology.
  • B. Sins of a Family
    "Sins of a Family" is a 1965 folk-rock song by Barry McGuire that tells a dark, socially conscious story reflecting the era’s interest in gritty, narrative songwriting.
  • C. Lord of Trade
    The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • D. The Family
    The Family is a funk and R&B band formed by Prince in the mid-1980s, best known for originating the song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
  • E. The Family
    The Family is a contemporary gospel choir best known for collaborating with Kirk Franklin on his breakthrough 1990s recordings that blended traditional gospel with hip-hop and R&B influences.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: The Family Trade
Triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, The Family Trade]
Generated description
The Family Trade is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows a journalist who discovers she can travel between parallel worlds and becomes embroiled in the politics and intrigues of a powerful interdimensional trading clan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Family Trade
Target entity description: The Family Trade is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows a journalist who discovers she can travel between parallel worlds and becomes embroiled in the politics and intrigues of a powerful interdimensional trading clan.
  • A. The Traders
    "The Traders" is a science fiction story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, focusing on the role of independent merchants in spreading the influence of the Foundation through trade and technology.
  • B. Sins of a Family
    "Sins of a Family" is a 1965 folk-rock song by Barry McGuire that tells a dark, socially conscious story reflecting the era’s interest in gritty, narrative songwriting.
  • C. Lord of Trade
    The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • D. The Family
    The Family is a funk and R&B band formed by Prince in the mid-1980s, best known for originating the song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
  • E. The Family
    The Family is a contemporary gospel choir best known for collaborating with Kirk Franklin on his breakthrough 1990s recordings that blended traditional gospel with hip-hop and R&B influences.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69c688796c148190adb2f1596f595f22 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e458ad9c81908c3f492b317ce291 completed March 27, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c788af20cc819084542035410aafbd completed March 28, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c78968b8588190b26afb5fe1a976db completed March 28, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c78a520b4081908b4822fb55c3dab9 completed March 28, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:38 p.m.